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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Arizona / Joined 1923 / Served to 1925

Frank H. Lyman

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Frank H. Lyman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1923. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1856 · age 170
Tenure: 1923–1925 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1923	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lyman authored 42 published opinions for the court (1923–1925), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Blue Bar Taxicab & Transfer Co. v. Hudspeth (33 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 45 of these were attributed to Lyman by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1923	Blue Bar Taxicab & Transfer Co. v. Hudspeth†	25 Ariz. 287	33
1923	Argetakis v. State†	24 Ariz. 599	28
1923	Pendleton v. Brown†	25 Ariz. 604	25
1923	McCreary v. State†	25 Ariz. 1	18
1924	Davis v. First National Bank†	26 Ariz. 621	13
1924	Bowden v. Nugent· Dissent†	26 Ariz. 485	13
1923	Pratt-Gilbert Co. v. Renaud†	25 Ariz. 79	11
1924	Moore v. Chilson†	26 Ariz. 244	10
1923	Gila Valley Electric, Gas & Water Co. v. Arizona Trust & Savings Bank†	25 Ariz. 177	10
1924	Acker v. State†	26 Ariz. 372	9
1924	La Grange v. State†	26 Ariz. 102	9
1924	Bethune v. Salt River Valley Water Users' Ass'n†	26 Ariz. 525	8
1923	Fairfield v. W. J. Corbett Hardware Co.†	25 Ariz. 199	8
1923	Sumid v. Cairns†	25 Ariz. 597	7
1923	Carrillo v. Murray & Layne Co.†	25 Ariz. 303	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 46 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Arizona reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Frank H. Lyman on?: Frank H. Lyman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

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2 years on the Supreme Court of Arizona. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).